I just hope that poser Parrish has nothing to do with picking our new manager. He knows how to pick a decent suit and car but what he knows about football you can write on the back of a fag packet.

This post has been merged from a topic called 'Roy for Permanent Palace Gig' by becky

This is sure to agitate a few on here, but it is not without merit. If performances and results persist Roy deserves a second crack.

He is a different animal to his previous spell and he ticks almost of all the boxes the board are looking for (age aside):

- He is presiding over a team with far greater quality than previously and getting them to perform.
- He obviously knows the club and board and isn’t as troublesome and as demanding as you would (reasonably) expect a new manager to be.
- Presuming our remit is to compete for Europe, Roy has proven previously at other clubs that he can compete on that front, and with further quality investment he would have a greater chance of fulfilling it.
- You get the sense that he has learned from supporters’ frustrations with him previously and that he is prepared to throw his defensive inhibitions to the wind and produce more attacking football. (Our previous three games have been nothing short of entertaining and deeply satisfying).
- Roy obviously wants the gig. You can see it in his interviews. And Parish knows it too.
- We’re Palace and we don’t go by anyone’s rule book!

Thoughts? Am I the only one thinking all this?

Roy resigned and didn't expect to go back into football management.

There were people on here saying they wouldn't renew their season tickets if they had to endure more of Royball !

Except for the high turnover of managers and the inability to build a stand when other clubs have built entire stadiums during the same time frame and a tendency toward hiding the chequebook when it should really be out buying players and proclaiming that the sun might not come out tomorrow when referring to the fact that our one striker who couldn’t score was sufficient for the remainder of the season, who of course subsequently got injured.

I wouldn’t call it phenomenal, he’s made plenty of mistakes along the way. If anything I think he has been fortunate that we have maintained PL status despite some of the penny pinching decisions at certain transfer windows.

I’m not convinced with the mentoring idea. It smacks of hand holding

It is not Parish's fault his isn't a billionaire and it isn't his fault that Harris and Blitzer renegaded on promises made by them but it is Parish's fault that we are still running as a football club whatever division we are in.